The self-referential adage that a task always takes longer than expected, even when Hofstadter's law is taken into account.

The adage that work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

Alternative spelling of attorney-at-law

A lawyer qualified to represent in court a party to a lawsuit.

A spouse of one's child; a son-in-law or daughter-in-law

A spiritual doctrine that claims all things exist as one, undivided.

A generalized spiritual doctrine that claims love of a deity or love within the context of other spiritual virtues as moral duty.

A sound law operating on Balto-Slavic short vowels, according to which they lengthen before unaspirated voiced stops, and that syllable gains rising, acute accent.

A Balto-Slavic sound law stating that the inherited Proto-Indo-European stress would retract to a non-ablauting pretonic vowel or a syllabic sonorant if it was followed by a consonantal (non-syllabic) laryngeal that closed the preceding syllable.

(law) The body of international law that concerns the principles and rules by which public entities, especially states, interact in maritime matters, including navigational rights, sea mineral rights, and coastal waters jurisdiction.